Dan Beudean

Dan Beudean (b. 1980, Cluj-Napoca) lives and works in Cluj-Napoca, and graduated from the University of Arts and Design in the same city. He extensively works in the realm of drawing and installation. His work spans a wide range of themes, including the natural world, the mystical, the everyday, and the fictional, often engaging with socio-political issues and the historical context of the 21st century.

Selected solo shows: Doctor OuchItHurts opens a hospital that cures any sickness from any animal (2024, Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca), God Luck and Good Speed (2018, Cluj-Napoca Art Museum), Magellan’s Cabin (2017, Lateral Art Space), What We Do Is Secret (2016, Zorzini Gallery). Selected group shows:  La Bine și La Rău, (Contemporar Space, Cluj Napoca, 2025), Ziua Crește (Contemporar Space, Cluj Napoca, 2025), Vitamin D2 – New Perspectives in Drawing (Phaidon, 2013). Walking the Line 6, (2015, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, Germany), The Stolen Bird (2014, Vanessa Quang Gallery, Paris, France), Scenes Roumaines (2013, Escape Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France).

• Selected Solo Exhibitions
• 2023
  • Doctor OuchItHurts opens a hospital that cures any sickness from any animal, Zina Gallery, Cluj- Napoca, Romania

• 2021
  • PHB, Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 2016
  • God Luck and Good Speed, Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 2014
  • Magellan’s Cabin, Lateral Art Space Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 2013
  • The Festival of the Supreme Being, Strabag Art Lounge, Vienna, Austria
  • Let’s Talk About Cars, Zorzini Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
• 2012
  • What We Do is Secret, Zorzini Gallery Bucharest, Romania
• 2009
  • Solo Show, Laika Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

• Selected Group Exhibitions
• 2024
  • Edges of the graph paper, Zina Project Space, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 2023
  • Ghosts Whisper Loud and Clear, Zina Project Space, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 2022
  • Eyelid Noon, Iomo Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
  • At the Endge of the World, Art Encounters Biennal, Timisoara, Romania
• 2021
  • Mirror!Mirror!, CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Forward Diving Into the Inhabited Core of a Tiny Spotlight, Matca Art Space Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 2020
  • My Solo Group Show 4, CAV gallery, Bucharest, Romania
  • 8 hrs of Motivational Tunes, Quadro21 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

• 2019
  • Mother Tongue, Sector 1 Gallery Bucharest, Romania
  • Jolting Tales of Tension, Matca Art Space, Cluj-Capoca, Romania
  • Ding a Ding Dang my Dang a Long Ling Long, Quadro 21, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 2018
  • Dark Smoke, Patrick Heide Contemporary, London, United Kingdom
  • The Unpleasant Show, Jecza Gallery, Timișoara, Romania
• 2017
  • Art Encounters: Life as a User’s Manual, Timișoara, Romania
  • Being Mountains Being Seas, Lateral Art Space, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • The Imposible Garden, Jecza Gallery, Timișoara, Romania
• 2016
  • Polished Honesty, CAV, Bucharest, Romania
• 2015
  • Walking the Line 6, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, Germany 2014 The Stolen Bird, Vanessa Quang Gallery, Paris, France
• 2014
  • Apprehension. Understanding Through Fear of Understanding, Bucharest Biennale 6, Bucharest, Romania
• 2013
  • Scenes Roumaines, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France 2013 Defining / Creating, Larm Gallery Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2010
  • Realm, Slag Gallery, New York, US

• Publications
• 2013
  • vitamin D2, published by Phaidon – New Perspectives in Drawing